NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1057 points
3968 points
275% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

24 FPS
88 FPS
64 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS
53 FPS
37 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS
64 FPS
48 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS
40 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2108 points
6332 points
200% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points
799.88 points
371% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15058 points
66368 points
340% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points
61373 points
260% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16857 points
53550 points
217% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points
65938 points
308% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points
62004 points
245% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz
1500 MHz
50% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz
1770 MHz
55% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB
6 GiB
49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s
288 GB/s
156% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
60% significantly lower TDP
120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s
84.96 Gigapixels/s
366% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s
169.9 Gigatexels/s
272% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
1536
139% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
96
139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
48
200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 586
124th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January
2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is better than the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q.

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